Biography
Peter Wood is a Network Security Specialist at Lancaster University, initially joining the institution in 2005 and later moved to a security focused role in 2009. He is one of two responsible for the development of an in-house enterprise grade NAC solution, which has driven the institutions network edge connectivity since 2010 with greater than 99.99% availability. He additionally acts as a liaison with the School of Computing and Communications and is currently involved OpenFlow research.
Abstract
NAC from Scratch: Supporting Corporate and Research
In 2009 Lancaster University ran a hugely uncontrolled network, while different networks were separated by VLANs there was no control over the edge ports and all configuration was manual. Over the year a highly fault tolerate system was developed which controls the institutions wired network with over 65k ports and 9k concurrent clients. This presentation explains our journey, what we've learnt and discovered, where we want go in the future and how we've helped further research goals while balancing the needs of the corporate departments.
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